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All Eyes on Sudan! - Poster of the Week


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Do Your Kids Bring Home Drawings Like This?

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees;

Simon Mac Anyat

Offset, circa 2000

Switzerland, Geneva

14703


Poster text: "Simon Mac Anyat, aged 17, Sudanese refugee in Kenya Do your kids bring home drawings like this? Refugee kids do. UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees"


Since April 2023, Sudan has been in the midst of a civil war between the Sudanese military (SAF) and the UAE-backed paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) over control the country's oil and gold resources. Massacres are so widespread that blood from these atrocities are visible from space. Last


The Sudan Doctors Network called the attack "a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, including the protection of civilians, especially children, and vital civilian infrastructure." The humanitarian crisis across Sudan is only worsening as the civil war spreads through the region. As a result, a famine was recently declared in Kadugli, the capital city of South Kordofan. Several attempts have been made to mediate this war, yet the SAF and RSF have refused to halt the violence.


The estimated death toll since the start of the civil war in 2023 is 150,000 with more than 11,000,000 people displaced, resulting in the world's largest and fastest-growing displacement in the 21st century. Many people have sought refuge in surrounding nations such as Egypt (1.5 million), South Sudan (1.25 million), and Chad (1.2 million). Human Rights Watch has documented accounts of mass atrocities including war crimes and possible ethnic cleansing. The RSF has committed widespread killings, including mass executions and sexual violence; the SAF has indiscriminately bombed densely populated areas, committed acts of sexual violence, and tortured detainees.


The endless violence and destabilization has only made it more challenging to get humanitarian aid into Sudan. Both the RSF and SAF are accused of using starvation as a weapon, imposing blockades on medical supplies, interfering with access to care through bureaucratic restrictions, and attacking and kidnapping of humanitarian aid volunteers.


We must continue to educate ourselves and the world about the atrocities being committed in Sudan.


Sudan deserves peace!

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